Overview
- City council votes on January 5 selected Karachi-born Sumbul Siddiqui to serve the 2026–27 term, marking her third tenure as mayor.
- Siddiqui is Cambridge’s first Muslim mayor and the first Asian woman elected mayor for a third consecutive term.
- Burhan Azeem, originally from Burewala in Punjab, was chosen as deputy mayor and is described as the youngest to hold the role in Cambridge.
- Azeem secured the deputy mayor post after winning re-election to the City Council for a second term, building on his record as the city’s youngest councillor.
- Siddiqui is a lawyer first elected to the council in 2017, while Azeem is an MIT engineering graduate and the son of Professor Munir Chaudhry.